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Monday, August 18, 2014

Mailbox Monday (8/17/14 edition)

Mailbox Monday is hosted here. I've received a few new books recently:

The Barter by Siobhan Adcock

A heart-stopping
tale as provocative as is suspenseful, about two conflicted women,
separated by one hundred years, and bound by an unthinkable sacrifice.

The Barter
is a ghost story and a love story, a riveting emotional tale that also
explores motherhood and work and feminism. Set in Texas, in present day,
and at the turn of the twentieth century, the novel follows two young
mothers at the turning point of their lives.

Bridget has given
up her career as an attorney to raise her daughter, joining a cadre of
stay-at-home mothers seeking fulfillment in a quiet suburb. But for
Bridget, some crucial part of the exchange is absent: Something she
loves and needs. And now a terrifying presence has entered her home;
only nobody but Bridget can feel it.

On a farm in 1902, a young
city bride takes a farmer husband. The marriage bed will become both
crucible and anvil as Rebecca first allows, then negates, the powerful
erotic connection between them. She turns her back on John to give all
her love to their child. Much will occur in this cold house, none of it
good.

As Siobhan Adcock crosscuts these stories with mounting
tension, each woman arrives at a terrible ordeal of her own making,
tinged with love and fear and dread. What will they sacrifice to save
their families—and themselves? Readers will slow down to enjoy the
gorgeous language, then speed up to see what happens next in a plot that
thrums with the weight of decision—and its explosive consequences.

Fiendish by Brenna Yovanoff

Clementine DeVore spent ten years trapped in a cellar, pinned down by willow roots, silenced and forgotten.

Now she’s out and determined to uncover who put her in that cellar and why.

When Clementine was a child, dangerous and inexplicable things started
happening in New South Bend. The townsfolk blamed the fiendish people
out in the Willows and burned their homes to the ground. But magic kept
Clementine alive, walled up in the cellar for ten years, until a boy
named Fisher sets her free. Back in the world, Clementine sets out to
discover what happened all those years ago. But the truth gets muddled
in her dangerous attraction to Fisher, the politics of New South Bend,
and the Hollow, a fickle and terrifying place that seems increasingly
temperamental ever since Clementine reemerged.